Curry-comb



F. I. HOWE.

UURRY 00MB.

(No Model.)

Patented Jan. 26, 1886;

UNITED STATES PATENT FRANK I. HOVE, OF MEDFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CURRY-CIVIB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,072, dated January 26, 1886.

Application filed November 4, 1885. Serial No.181,S53. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, FRANK I. HowE, of Medtleld, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in CurryCombs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In this improved curry-comb, its plate or frame, having a suitable handle, is provided with two or more combingedges, each made along its length continuously undulatory, and the convex and concave portions alternating with each other and located, those of each edge in line with those of the other edges, and with a straight edge, which is placed forward or in front of the series of combingedges, and the several edges preferably in straight lines parallel with each other, and the plate narrowed in width between its handle and the combing-edge next in position thereto, all substantially as hereinafter described.

In the drawing the gure is a perspective view of the present improved curry-comb.

A is the plate or frame, and B is its handle.

C Cl are combing-edges--shown as two in number, but they may be more-and D is the straight edge. The combing-edges C C2 and the straight edge D are parallel with each other, and extend across the width of the plate or frame. The straight edge D is forward or in front of the combing-edges C C2, and the plate A tapers on each side in width, as at E, from the combing-edge C next in position to the handle toward the handle, ending in a width practically equal to the diameter of the handle at the junction of the handle with the edge E. Each combing-edge G C2 is of an undulatory form along its length, and has a series of convex and concave portions, G I-I, respectively, alternating and continuous ,with each other, and said portions G H of the one edge, C, are in line with the corresponding portions of the other edge, C2.

Combing-edges of the form described and the arrangement of the convex and concave portions ofthe one edge in line with those corresponding of the other edge or edges present no angles or corners for the entanglement of the hair of the animal or lodgment of dirt, thus preventing the unnecessary removal or pulling out of hair and the clogging of the combingedges and abrasion of the skin. Again, the concave portions form recesses to receive the hair, and as those of the one edge are in line with those of the other edge or edges they permit the convex portions to make better and closer contact with the skin, and no ohstruction is occasioned thereto, which would be the case were the convex portions of one edge opposite to or in line with the concave portions of the edge next in order therewith, and so on, and the comb is rendered easy in working, and the hairs are the better and straighter disposed and also scraped,and most effective action of all the teeth upon the skin secured. The straight edge D at the forward end of the comb, in the forward movement of the comb, and which is against the lay of the animals hair more or less, raises the hair, and thus to a certain extent frees the skin for the action of the combing-edges which next follow, which in action are enabled to make most close contact at their convex portions with the skin, because of the arrangement relatively of the convex and concave portions of their edges. In the backward movement oft-he curry-comb the straight edge, by properly presenting it, can be made most effective as a scraper to then remove the dirt which was separated in the previous forward movement from the hair of the animal.

Narrowing the comb-plate in width as has been described renders the plate easier and freer to be grasped in the hand,while securing the desired and requisite length of combing and straight edges.

The plate or frame Amay be made of any suitable metal or other material,and the coinbing and straight edges vin one piece therewith or of separate pieces attached thereto.

Heretofore curry-combs have been provided with parallel series of broad and rounded teeth, the teeth ofthe several series varying in size,and the series being so arranged that the highest portion of the teeth of one series shall be in line with the depressed portion of the teeth in the adjacent series. Curry-combs have also been made wit-h straight edges and with alternating straight and toothed edges, and scrapers and combs have been provided with undulating edges of various forms. I am not aware, however, that a curry-comb has hitherto been made which embraces a straight IOC ous undulatory form along their length with out angles or corners, and with convex and concave portions G H, alternating with eaeh dulating edges composed of alternately convex other and in line with the corresponding porand concave portions that are continuous with Vtions of the others, substantially as shown and each other and arranged in line with the cordesribed. v

responding portions of the other undulating In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my edge or edges., hand 'in the presence of tWo subscribing` Witedge at the end opposite the handle,with inl termediate combing-edges parallel therewith andwith each other, said combs having un- Vhat I claim as my invention is nesses. A curry-comb composed of the frame A, FRANK I. HOVVE. having at one end a handle, B, at the opposite Vitnesses:

endv a straight edge, D, and provided with intermediate combing-edges, C C2, of a eontinul ALBERT W. BROWN, WM. S. BELLOWS. 

